Ann Coulter Trolls With Racist Article As President Obama Wishes a Happy Kwanzaa

Ann Coulter Trolls With Racist Article As President Obama Wishes a Happy Kwanzaa

Late on Thursday evening, President Obama and the First Lady issued a
statement to those celebrating Kwanzaa. This was consistent with their
statements this holiday season for Christmas and Hanukkah. Considering
that anywhere from 2 to 5 million people in this country alone observe
and celebrate the holiday, and both the President and FLOTUS are
African American, it should be both uncontroversial and expected for
POTUS to make a statement.
The official statement from the White House was this:

"Michelle and I extend our best wishes to all those celebrating Kwanzaa this holiday season." —President Obama
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) December 26, 2013

Michelle and I extend our best wishes to all those
celebrating Kwanzaa this holiday season. Today marks the beginning of
the week-long celebration of African American culture through family
activities and community festivities that bring attention to Kwanzaa’s
seven principles of unity, self-determination, collective work and
responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith.
Though each principle represents the essence of this holiday, they also
represent the shared values that bind us as Americans.
As families and communities across our country come together today to
light the Kinara, our family sends our hopes for a prosperous and
healthy new year.

For the most part, there was not much outrage from the right
regarding this press release and tweet. But, it wasn’t for lack of
trying by the right-wing’s favorite troll, Ann Coulter. Around the same
time that the President was releasing his statement, Coulter posted an article to her website
where she decided to explain the ‘true’ origins of Kwanzaa. Basically,
it is all the result of the FBI and CIA mixed with ’60s counterculture
sprinkled with Marxism and collectivism. Basically, another liberal plot
to bring down our society as we know it.
For anyone that knows Coulter, this is pretty much her shtick. She
must demonize and whip up a frenzy about anything that can considered
liberal or progressive. And, as is typical of her, when it comes to
matters of race, especially African-Americans, she needs to make sure to
‘whitesplain’ everything to them. In this case, it is about Kwanzaa.
The very worst part of the article, and what Coulter will obviously
defend as ‘humor’ or ‘sarcasm’, came at the very end. After pointing out
(without any shred of evidence) that Kwanzaa is ‘celebrated exclusively
by idiot white liberals’ and that blacks in America only celebrate
Christmas (because, of course, SHE KNOWS), she provided this nice little
‘song’ that is supposed to be sung to the tune of Jingle Bells:

Much like everything that Coulter writes or says, it is all just a
confused word salad of jumbled ideas that is searching for an
all-encompassing theory about why liberalism is bad. When she is called
on her BS, she dismisses it out of hand as just dumb liberals just not
‘getting it.’ The same goes when someone points out a blatantly racist
or bigoted statement she has made. She always takes the Rush Limbaugh
defense. Essentially, she said it in a humorous context and overly
sensitive PC-types are making too much of it.
This will be the case here. That is, if anyone even cares. In the
end, Coulter has gone so far down the rabbit hole that even
conservatives tend to not listen to her anymore. She is so one-note and
absurd that she has a tough time finding anyone other than Fox News to
bring her on. And even with Fox News, you can tell most of the hosts
don’t take her seriously anymore. She has gone well past her expiration
date but nobody on the right has been able to tell her its over.
Instead, they just stop picking up the phone.

Ann Coulter Trolls With Racist Article As President Obama Wishes a Happy Kwanzaa was written by Justin Baragona for PoliticusUSA.